This is the second of two interviews with Bruce Plenk. He opposed the Vietnam War, and was arrested for attacking the ROTC Building at University of Utah. He worked against the Canyonlands nuclear waste dump, the MX Missile, and the Nevada Nuclear...

These are the handwritten notes of the proceedings of the first Provo City Council meeting, covering from April 28, 1851 through August 6, 1853.
Full text transcripts are available in the final section listed in the Table of Contents.

This book is the published doctoral dissertation from the University of Strasbourg, France, of Lowell Lindsay Bennion. Published in 1933, it is significant because it is the first book-length interpretation in the English language of Weber's...

Aaron Davis enlisted in the US Marines and was stationed at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, from July 1972 to May 1976. He reenlisted in the Army and was stationed at Mannheim and Kaiserslautern, Germany, and was released in 1986.

Mae Parry gives a life sketch of herself, including her growing up years in Washakie, Utah, and in a boarding school in California. She describes her family life, adventures in their little Indian school, and being the first Indian to graduate from...

Willa Nita Brooks Derrick is the daughter of William and Juanita Brooks. In this interview she describes what it was like to grow up in their blended family, with their mother teaching school, writing and researching, and serving family, church...

Carmen Negron talks about her early years living in Ponce, Puerto Rico, attending elementary school in New York City, and then returning to her native country to finish her schooling. She also discusses her love for learning, teaching special...

Linda Makin talks about growing up in Lehi, Utah, attending Utah Technical College at Provo (UTC) and the path that eventually led her to become Utah Valley University’s Chief Planning Budget & Policy officer. She describes meeting her husband,...

This first issue of Brown Bag Magazine accompanies the Fall 2013 issue of Touchstones, the literary journal of the UVU English Department. The Brown Bag Magazine, however, includes contributions from non-UVU authors as well as UVU students,...